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Original Title:	The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
ISBN:	0871568772 (ISBN13: 9780871568779)
Edition Language:	English

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

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Title	:	The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Author	:	Wendell Berry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2004 by Counterpoint (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Food and Drink. Food. Science. Agriculture. Environment. Nature. History

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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
Sadly, as Berry notes in his Afterword to this third edition, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are good people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.

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A great, although uneven, criticism of the reigning agricultural and cultural mentality in the U.S. It's impressive that Berry wrote this more than 30 years ago since the argument seems just as timely today. The first two and last two chapters were the strongest. In between, he gets into an abstract discussion on the relationship between our connection to the land, ourselves, and other human beings. The vagueness of some of his terminology and expressions in these chapters resulted in my losing

A funny thing happened with this book, I read it last year before the election and felt it was beautifully written but sort of idealistic and naive. Then after the election, I reread it, and my mind was much more prepared for it. It is truly a masterpiece of American literature and letters. I think if you want to understand how things have gotten to how they are, politically, culturally and economically, or even if you want to understand one of the possible causes of ennui in America today, then

A challenging critique of the last half century of agricultural policy and the coinciding societal shift away from rural, communal living to urban individualism.

"If we do not live where we work, and when we work, we are wasting our lives, and our work too." Wide-ranging and thoughtful, "The Unsettling of America" is Berry at his best. With broad strokes, Berry creates a vision of a 20th-century America held hostage by "agriprofessionals" and the atomization of our lived experience. Our work and our labor has become separate from ourselves, Berry argues, and placed in the hands of an ever-increasing number of "specialists". Inherently, this is a critique

Loved this book! A suggested reading assignment for a conservation conference I was attending, the book at first seemed like an odd choice since it was first published in the late '70s. But Berry's concerns both came true and continue. So much felt like what I saw happen over the last decades to the farming community I was raised in. Eloquent and important--highly recommend.

Every once in a while, a book comes along at the right place and at the right time, and that book has the power to change your life. This was that book for me. It moved me out of the city and into the country, and inspired me to grow food for people. It changed the way I view my relationship to the earth, and my responsibility to it. Don't read this book if you want to live comfortably with your current worldview.

Although based on agriculture, the book reflects on humanity and the American way of life. It shines a light on how we got to where we are based on scuttle indoctrination of the definition of success, and how to go about getting there (hint: one never gets there).It is sad to see how each generation views the future as a conquest to be colonized for the presentessentially stealing it from the next generation.We have moved away from the cyclical nature of the community, family, and social